Draft-rigging for railway-cars.



J. F. OCONNOR.

DRAFT RIGGING FOR RAILWAY CARS.

APPLICATION FILED MAR.20, 1913. RENEWED AUG. 12, 1914.

Patented Apr. 20, 1915.

WENTOR. John f 0 fionnor BY %e9, ATTORNEY QQE WITNESSES 7am 077 manner.

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JFQHN F. QUONEOB, 0F CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO WILLIAM H. MINER, 0F

. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

DBAFT-EIGGING FOE WAY-CABS.

Specification of Letters ysten't.

Patented A r. so, 1915 Application flied 819]: 20, 5.913, 5611s} E0.755,830. Renewed ingest 22, 191%.; Serial No. 858,492.

T oi! whom it may concern Be it known that 1, Jens F. QGonnon, a citizenof the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook andState of Il'linois,'have invented a certain new and useful Improvementin Draft-Rigging for Railway-(Jars, of which the followingis a full,clear, concise, and exact description,

reference beinghad to the accompanying.

drawings, forming a part of this specification.

My invention relates to improvements in draft rigging for railway cars.

In those types of draft rigging employing sto members secured to draftmembers and a raft gear mounted between followers, which followers areadapted to engage the said stop members, the'common practice in applyingthe draft gear, followers, yoke and drew her to the car in firstassembling these parts, or in replacing or changing these parts, is toplace the followers and the draft gear within the oke, andthen to liftthe parts .so assemb ed from underneath the draft members into ositionbetween the same, engaging the fo lowers with the stop members, and thento apply the means, such as a tie plate, upholding the said parts of thedraft rigging in their position between the draft'members.

Theob'ect oimy invention is to provide a means 0 easily assembling theseparts between the draft .members so that inaccuracies in the position ofthe parts within the draft yokein their assembled relation before thesame are placed between the draft members, or inaccuracies inexactdimensions of the parts will not hinder in the read and quick mountingof the draft gear, yo e and followers between the draft members. Thepractice heretofore has been to provide stop members havin stopshoulders at right angles to the draft .member.

1 accomplish the object of my invention by providing followers havingfaces adapted to engage with the ends of the draft gear, but provided attheir edges with angular faces.

with similar angular faces so that either the shoulders of the stopmembers on onedraft member converge upwardly toward each other with theedges of the fol lowers adapted to engage with said shoulmy inventionillustrated in the drawings I have depicted stop members in which thestop shoulders on the same draft member converge upwardly toward eachother, and the ed es of the followers adapted to engage tile same aresimilarly converged. It will be understood however, that by illustratingand describing this one form of my invention 1 do not intend to belimited only to the specific construction hereinafter detailed.

In the drawings forming a part of this specification Figure l is anelevation of a stop member in its position upon a draft member. Fig. 2is a. plan view of a draft rigging illustrating with other arts the stopmembers and followers embodying my invention' Fig. 3 is a perspectiveview of one of the followers. Fig. 4: is a perspective view of amodified form of follower.

Referring to the drawings 5, 5 represent draft members or parts of thecar frame to which the draft rigging is applied, 6, 6 stop members, 7the draw bar partially shown in the drawings, 8 the draft yoke partiallyshown in the drawings, 9-the draft gear, 10 the tie plate, 11 the frontfollower, and 12 the rear follower. Each stop member 6 may be in theform of a cheek plate illustrated in Fig. 1 of the drawings, having aplurality B5 of stop shoulders, or may consist of a plurality of stopmembers secured to either draft member. y

In the form of stop members illustrated in the drawings each stop membercomprises a cheek plate113 suitably secured, preferablyby the rivets 14,14, to draft member. Itwill be understood that there is one check platesecured to the inner face of each draft member, and that the same areoppositely arranged. One is the counterpart of the other, and I willtherefore describe one of the cheek plates. Y The same is provided witha front stop shoulder 16, the

said stop shoulder .cxtending outwardly from the draft member, and fromits bottom end. 17 to its upper end 18 the same angles rearwardly, asillustrated in Fig. l of the drawings. The check plate 13 is alsoprovidcd with afront limiting stop shoulder 19, which'from its bottom 20to its top 2-1 angles rearwardly, paralleling the front stop shoulde?16. The check plate 13. is alsg provided with the. mai stop shoulder 22extending outwardly from thedraft member, and from its bottom end 23 toits top end 24: angles forwardly, that is, from the bottom toward I thetop the front stop shoulders and rear 'stop shoulders converge, Thecheek plate 13 1s al'so'provided with a rear limiting stop shouldlrQii,which from its bottom 26'to its top 27 parallels the rearstop shoulder22-.

"a forward face '29 and a rear face substantially parallel to eachother, the said faces being at substantially right angles in bothvertical and horizontal plane to the eentral line of the draft gear, therear face 30 thereofbeing adapted to engage with the forward end of thedraft gear. At either side the said follower is provided withan angularportion 31, the front and rear faces 32 and 33 respectively of saidangular porition being oblique to the plane of the faces 29 and 30 ofsaid follower. A follower is in normal position and mounted between thestop members the front faces '32," 32 of the angular portion 31 areadapted to engage with thefront stop shoulder 16,

'andon rearward movement of the said follower in, buffing movement ofthe draft gear the rearfa ces 3 3, 33 of said angular portion engage thelimiting stop shoulder 19, and limit the' compr'essing movement of thegear.

'The rear follower may be a duplicateiof the front f0llower.-

the modified form of 'followenillustrated in'Fig. at of the drawings thesame is proyided with a forward face 35 parallel'to the rear faceof-thedraft-geai ft), and provided-at either side with; an ang1'1-' 'l arportion--37, each rear face 38 ofwhich is oblique=to the face 36,'thesame being-Q adapted to engage the rear stop shoulder 22 when innormalpositionin relation thereto. In employing them'odified form of followerthe limiting stop shoulders are at right an'-'.'

i gles to the length of the cheek plates, and the edges of the followersadapted to engage .thelimiting stop shoulders are in the same" plane asthe; portion engaging the draft] v gean a v lVh en mounting the draftyoke and-the followers and draft gear within-the. yoke fin'to' positionbetween the draft members,- ;and in engagement witlrth'e stop members,-

' beeause'of the an .ular portions at the edges I "sideof. one follower,converging front the The front follower ll comprises a platesubstantially rectangular in shape, having members and followers,

draft members,

When the said -5. In a draftriggingin combination, "members," front andrear followers .-an 1 I a';

draft gear, the stop members beingea'ch pro? vided with ,front Iprovided with a face 'adapte'd-, to engage an end of the draft gear,,.,'margi nal edge at either side thereof, adapt u 'conver-ging'towardthemarginaledges ofjthe v I said cheek plates. being providedlfwi-th; f3 of the followers ti-e"angular portion 'on' one dersyeajeh of the.followers engagingone end oftheQdi-aft gear, I 'jn'argi naledges-{adapted'to engag the their position-between the draft"members.

The clearance between the angular edges of v the followers and the stopshoulders while: the said parts are being lifted into position permitsof the ready mounting of-said, parts, and the easy change of the samewhen re-i f qu'ired in the practical operation. of .rail roads. I l

"Iolaimz- I v I 1'. la a draft rigging, in combination, stop: the stopmembers, being provided with stop'shoulders converging upwar lv towardeach other, and the', followers being provided with angular memfliersadapted to engage the said'stop-shoul ers. 2; ,In a draft rigging, incombination,

stop members securedthere' to, the stop members on each draft member Ibeing provided with stop shoulders, said. stop shoulders convergingupwardly toward each other. b 3. In a draft rigging, in combination,stop members and followers, the 'stopfmembers being each providedwith-shouldersadapted, to engage the followers, the said followers"being each provided with marginal edges. I converging upwardlytowardiea'ch-other; at. In a draft rigging, in combination, stop."members, followers and adraft gear, the-folf lowers being each providedwith faceadapted to engage one endof the draft-gs r, and each havingmarginal edges whose-pl n'e is oblique-to the face engagingtheifdifitgear, the said stop members being provided lowers.

and rear 1 stop shoulders, 4' said stop shoulders converging upwardly toward, each other, the followers-being each and each having ed to engageone of the, stop, shoulders, th said marginal edges of the frontfollower reanfollower. 6.- In a draft gear, in 'combination,;-draftmembers, a pair of cheek platesioppo'sitel a.rranged', and onesecuiedfto each membeni front and rearjfollowers,"

draft gear bet weena said followers, eat o and rear upwardlyconvergingfsto withstop shoulders, frontfollower being-f. in}

4 uwith shoulders adapted to engage the' ol- I adapted to engage therearend ofthe draft gear 9, and a rear. face 36 substantially providedwith a face adapted to engage the front end of the draft gear, andmarginal edges adapted to engage the front shoulders of the stopmembers, said marginal edges being oblique to the face of the followerengaging the front end of the draft gear, the rear follower beingprovided with a face adapted to engage the rear end of the draft gear,and marginal edges adapted to engage the rear shoulders of the stop memer, said marginal edges being oblique to the. fave of the followerengaging the rear end of the draft gear.

8. In a draft rigging. in draftmembers, stop members, a draft yoke, adraft gear. front and rear followers, the followers and draft. gearbeing'adapted to be assembled within the draft yoke, the stop membersbeing provided with upwardly eon- -ging to shoulders. and the followersbeing eaeh provided with oblique marginal combination,

edges adapted to engage the said stop sh0ul ders.

9. In a draft rigging, in combination draft members, stop memberssecured thereto. a d 'afyoke and a draft gear, and followers within theyoke, the. said stop members beihg provided with upwardly convergingstop shoulders, and the followers being provided with similarly upwardlyeonverg-' ing marginal edge adapted when the assembled yoke, draft gearand followers are being raised between the draft members to elear theslmt ld'erwof the stop members until the followers sition between thedraft memhers, whereupon the followers 'engage the shoulders of the stopmembers.

V JOHN F. ()CONNOR. Witnesses: him-Axon l1, Nam, .loux A. )lMtTIXKUS.

are raised to normal p0;

